Point Blank

Bob Dylan

ISBN 10: 1398557900 / ISBN 13: 9781398557901

Published by Simon and Schuster Ltd, GB, 2025

About this Item

Point Blank (Quick Studies) is the first major publication of Bob Dylan's artwork in over a decade, featuring nearly 100 never-before-seen drawings.Bob Dylan is a master at telling stories, creating moods and provoking feelings - not only in music and the written word but also in visual art, which he has been creating since the 1960s. This publication of his art features nearly 100 black-and-white drawings that were completed between 2021 and 2022 and served as the basis for his latest exhibition - also titled Point Blank - at London's Halcyon Gallery in early 2025. The works vary between portraits, still lifes and landscapes: roller-skating lovers, a suit of armour, a suspension bridge, a karaoke singer, a roll of Scotch tape, a Parisian canal, a man with a crooked smile. Accompanying the artwork are short prose vignettes written by Eddie Gorodetsky, Jackie Hamilton and Lucy Sante that further enhance the images' evocativeness. Dylan's ability to find beauty and mystery in the seemingly mundane is one of his great gifts - and the gift he's continually given to the public over the years, including now with Point Blank.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781398557901

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Point Blank
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398557900
• ISBN 13: 9781398557901
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Demonstrating his sensibility for storytelling, Point Blank is a notably observant series of works based on ‘quick studies’ of characters, objects, and scenarios created between 2021 and 2022.

Reading like a glimpse into Bob Dylan’s visual journal, the collection is infused with a distinct spontaneity, as if capturing fleeting moments or memories.

The choice of subjects adds to the series’ intense emotional resonance. Intriguing object studies such as a mirror which displays a set of lips, a saxophonist looking introspectively at his instrument and a cowboy, whose pistol hangs on his belt in front of a rising sun, all provoke our imagination to contemplate the protagonists of his art and the situations they find themselves in.

This book features the complete series of Point Blank quick studies alongside accompanying prose, revealing an unfurling story or a series of dreamlike anecdotes pertaining to certain works. Surreal in its manifestation and automatic in its spontaneity, the interplay of words and visuals enlivens his paintings even further.